visual artist, itinerant art historian, freelance writer
I’ve been writing on and off about the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. It really is one of the most helpful and accessible books for someone who is starting out with learning to draw…
If you’ve been working hard on your drawing over the past few weeks and [...]
Writing this review was a huge challenge for me in my particular position as an art history graduate student and aspiring artist. I enjoy the challenge of writing about visual and/or conceptual things, but have come to prefer the physical process of making my own drawings and tactile objects…
Dealing with the mountains of delicious desire, [...]
John Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing, 1888, is available free in the public domain. It’s a lovely book, if a little stern in tone, and if you’re prepared to submit to Ruskin’s methods, real progress in observational drawing may be made. Personally, I like Ruskin’s written and graphic style and while (being a bit of [...]
“We can circumvent, avoid and repress our history, and encourage our culture to be more decorative, distracting and vapid, or we can directly face this part of our national history if artists choose to participate in a struggle for needed understanding as they see fit. As we yearn for peace and beauty, for masterpieces of [...]
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